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BIMINI BAY RESORT DESTROYS BIMINIBimini Bay Resort is a Project of Hilton Hotels Corporation and the Capo Group that is being advertised as an environmentally sensitive Eco-tourist destination. In reality, Bimini bay resort is a scandalous ongoing ecological disaster.
The island of Bimini is located about 50 miles east of Miami and is part of the Bahamas. Bimini island is a tropical paradise that supports an abundance of life, but the island and it's culture are at risk. Only strong action will save Bimini and the other Bahamian islands currently under assault. Take action now!
Bimini island possesses the only mangrove ecosystem on the entire Northwest Bahama Bank, and is responsible for replenishing fish populations not only in Bimini but over thousands of square miles of coral reefs and seabed. Today countless species of fish, rays, sponges, lobsters, and birds fill their unique niche in this ecosystem. But Bimini Bay Resort and Hilton are in the process of destroying all this pristine beauty and irreplaceable habitat by building a sprawling golf course, condos, a casino and a marina. The Bahamas Coalition is asking you to join us in writing letters to Hilton
Hotels, newspapers and Bahamian officials demanding that they
ACT to avert an ecological
disaster. We are writing to Hilton to let them know that we and our friends
will not stay in any Hilton hotel or Hilton-affiliated hotel, or support a
hotel chain that destroys
mangroves with no thought of the future of an island, an ecosystem, a people,
a culture and future generations.
Help stop Bimini Bay Resort!
UPDATE!!! Watch the new short movie by Fabian Cousteau posted on YouTube!A new short film by Fabian Cousteau looks into the environmental crisis on Bimini caused by the Bimini Bay Resort development. To watch it, CLICK HERE! Note: Please allow a few seconds for the video to load...
Sunset over Mangroves in the North Sound, Bimini, Bahamas - Photo MDP "The winds of change run ceaselessly over the Bahamas, and man, with his insatiable greed, hacks and gouges, drains and fills on the remotest of the island chain. Splendid hotels and yacht havens crowd the white beaches where once an Arawak Indian girl may have walked or rode laughingly upon the back of a lumbering sea turtle. A primitive silence, broken only by a bird’s lonely cry, has been shattered forever. Something rare and of great value has been lost to a world in noisy turmoil. In its place are the fine marinas, the swimming pools, the golf courses, the fishing clubs, the angry whine of outboard motors and the endless beat of calypso steel drums. Now all the cays are beginning to look alike, and no one seems to mind. In the counting houses the stacks of dollars mount. Who would want to peer beyond them? Here the rapist and the ravaged are in happy communion." Excerpt from An Affair of Honor
Saving the sawfish is a short film that highlights the destructive
effect that Bimini Bay Resort is having on Bimini. Watch it below: Bimini Bay Resort and Casino and Bimini Bay as referenced on this web site
are not to be confused with Bimini Bay Resort Homes of Orlando, Florida,
Bimini Bay Clothing and Sportswear, or any other reference to Bimini
not affiliated with the Capo Group and Hilton Hotels. |
The mangroves of Bimini island are the most important breeding area of several critically
endangered species. Hundreds of people affiliated with dozens of groups
are trying to prevent the wholesale devastation of Bimini island's irreplaceable
mangrove ecosystem by Bimini Bay Resort. 
As
the builders of Bimini Bay Resort, with the full support of Hilton Corporation,
cut down, fill in and destroy the rich mangrove ecosystem of Bimini,
so they obliterate the very habitats on which Bimini's biological richness
and true economy depend. Bimini‘s famed fishing, portrayed in Hemingway's
novel Islands in the Stream, could be a romantic relic of the
past. The Bimini Bay Resort is destroying fish nurseries and habitat
that will cost the local people their livelihoods. While the Capo Group
has been promising jobs for locals, in actuality they have been importing
Mexican labor. 